Chinese America: History and Perspectives articles from January 1 2007

Chinese America: History and Perspectives archives from January 1 2007

Twenty years of Chinese America: History and Perspectives.(Organization overview)
January 1, 2007... In 1985, the Chinese Historical Society of America (CHSA) appointed Him Mark Lai, Fayette Taylor, and Judy Yung to serve on an editorial board assisting CHSA Bulletin editor Annie Soo. During a meeting of the group, Taylor raised the point that...

Branching out the Banyan Tree: a changing Chinese America: conference proceedings introduction.
January 1, 2007... The 2007 issue of Chinese America: History and Perspectives celebrates two milestones. First, it marks the 20th anniversary of the journal. Second, it contains the proceedings of the Chinese American town and gown conference, "Branching Out the...

Making history: conference banquet tribute to Philip P. Choy and Him Mark Lai.(Speech)
January 1, 2007... Good Evening Friends, As shown on the screen, these two gentlemen are "most wanted"--but not by the FBI. They are most wanted in the field of Chinese American history. They are our elders, in both age and knowledge. They are Chinese...

Conference honorees: Chinese America's grand historians *.(Biography)
January 1, 2007... PHILIP P. CHOY Born in San Francisco Chinatown on December 17, 1926, Philip P. Choy grew up in a family of five children. His father, a paper son, was part owner of a meat market on the north end of Grant Avenue; his mother, American-born...

"Town and gown" a mutual commitment": October 7, 2005, conference luncheon keynote address: Charles B. Reed, EdD.
January 1, 2007... Thank you very much for this opportunity to speak. I am honored to be a part of this event and to meet so many distinguished guests. I'd like to start by sharing a few words from a good friend of mine, a successful businessman and former...

"Town and gown: a mutual commitment": October 7, 2005, conference luncheon keynote address: Henry Der.(Speech)
January 1, 2007... In my comments this afternoon, I would like to talk about the state testing program, the federal No Child Left Behind accountability system, and their effects on Chinese and other racial minority students. The California Postsecondary...

Banquet keynote speaker.(Gary Locke )(Brief article)(Biography)
January 1, 2007... GARY LOCKE, JD Born in 1950 in Seattle, Washington to a family of five children, Gary Locke is a third-generation Chinese American with ancestral roots in Hong Kong and in Taishan, Guangdong Province. After graduating from Yale University...

Similarities in given names of Chinese and Anglo-Saxon origins.(2I Paper)
January 1, 2007... Studies of personal names show that history, language, and social attitudes are some of the information encoded in all names, which include family names or surnames and given names. The term "given name" is used in this paper instead of "first...

Black Chinese: history, hybridity, and home.
January 1, 2007... (Original Title: Black Chinese: Historical Intersections, Hybridity, and the Creation of Home) In entering into the twenty-first century, one might affirm that the face of Chinese America has changed or has it? Chineseness has been...

"My race, too, is queer" (1): queer mixed heritage Chinese Americans fight for marriage equality (2).(6D Paper)(Law overview)
January 1, 2007... (Original Title: My Race, Too, Is Queer: Chinese Hapa People Fight Anti-Miscegenation and Anti-Gay Marriage) BROAD OVERVIEW This essay grew out of a presentation at the Seventh Chinese American Studies conference, "Branching Out the...

Marriage Rights in the Media.(6D Paper Summary)
January 1, 2007... My mother, who is Chinese American, was only able to marry my father, who is white, because of the California Supreme Court's 1948 Perez decision overturning California's anti-miscegenation law. Without that decision, my family might not exist....

The emergence of Chinese American women.(6H Panel Summary)(Square and Circle Club )
January 1, 2007... (Original Title: The Emergence of Chinese Women) ALICE LOWE, MODERATOR The Square and Circle Club, the oldest Chinese American women's community service organization in America, was founded on June 15, 1924, by seven teenaged girls in...

Contested childhoods: the Pacific Society for the Suppression of Vice vs. the WHMS Methodist Oriental Home, 1900-1903.(8H Paper)
January 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION Historical investigations of Protestant child rescuers in San Francisco Chinatown are not new, but surprisingly there are no studies of the Methodist women's work in the Chinese quarter, even though it actually predates by...

Oral history workshop.(9G Workshop Summary)
January 1, 2007... Drawing from thirty years of experience as a practitioner and teacher of oral history, Judy Yung provided the nuts and bolts of conducting an oral history interview with a Chinese American. As she said, of utmost importance is...

The Chinese health agenda: proposed strategies for improving Chinese American health and wellness.(4A Paper)
January 1, 2007... (Original Title: The Chinese Health Agenda--Proposed Strategies for Improving Chinese American Community Health and Wellness) INTRODUCTION The purpose of this report presented by Kent Woo, Executive Director of the NICOS Chinese Health...

Accommodating care of type 2 diabetes for the Chinese American family.(7I Paper Summary)
January 1, 2007... Type 2 diabetes is an illness that affects the Chinese American population disproportionally. Although Chinese American diabetic patients have reported the importance of the family in adequate diabetes care, little is known about how Chinese...

The use of complementary and alternative medicine among Chinese women with breast cancer.(7I Paper)
January 1, 2007... (Original title: Chinese women, immigration, and breast cancer) INTRODUCTION Breast cancer is the number one cause of cancer-related mortality for Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women, who have the lowest rate of both...

The development of a community-based integrated health care system for the San Francisco Chinese community.(9D Paper)
January 1, 2007... (Original Title: Accessing Culturally Competent Health Care in the 21st Century) Much has been written about the experience of the Chinese in America. However, there has been little consideration given to how the Chinese obtained health...

Accessing cultural competent health education programs in the twenty-first century.(9D Paper)(Chinese Community Health Resource Center)(National organization overview)
January 1, 2007... (Original Title: Accessing Culturally Competent Health Care in the 21st Century) INTRODUCTION According to the 2000 census, there were approximately 2.4 million Chinese in the United States, and about 152,000 of them resided in San...

Overview and examples of NARA San Francisco historical resources then and now, 1975-2005.(1I Paper Summary)(National Archives and Records Administration)
January 1, 2007... In 1975, the National Archives Pacific Region--San Francisco published its very first Reference Information Paper, Chinese Studies in Federal Records. First discussed were case files of U.S. District and Circuit Courts in San Francisco, from...

Beyond black and white: race, class, and Chinese Americans in multiracial Chicago.(5J Paper)
January 1, 2007... In both the academic and popular imagination, Asian Americans have long been considered to occupy an in-between position in a Black and white racial framework. This bipolar view of U.S. race relations not only fails to describe the quickly...

Old rituals in new lands.(7E Paper Summary)
January 1, 2007... (Original Title: A Change in Direction: Bringing the Ancestors Home) For the Chinese, the exchanges between the living and the dead represent a reciprocal relationship. Through the presentation of food and other observances, the...

The alien files or a files: the missing link.(7H Panel)
January 1, 2007... Florence Tu, Moderator This presentation will showcase a new, as yet barely explored "source frontier" in American immigration and ethnic and family historical research: the huge U.S. government investigative case file group known as Alien...

Rooted in the Americanization zeal: the San Francisco International Institute, race, and settlement work, 1918-1939.(8H Paper)(International organization overview)
January 1, 2007... The Chinese and Japanese come from the Asiatic zone ineligible to citizenship. This means that the impulse to serve them has never been rooted in the Americanization zeal which has played so large a part, spoken or unspoken, in the attitude of...

Detention at Angel Island: first empirical evidence.(8I Paper Summary)
January 1, 2007... This paper draws on new data found in ledgers of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company for the period from 1913 to 1919, representing over 29,000 of its 'alien passengers" (including native-born American Chinese) coming from Asia and from Central...

Reclaimed stories: Chinatown, Oakland, California.(1C Paper Summary)
January 1, 2007... (Original Title: Oakland's Chinese Pioneers: A Forgotten Generation). The story of Chinese America is complex and multifaceted. One significant segment is the adaptability and survival of the immigrants and descendants of the so-called...

Driven out: roundups and resistance of the Chinese in rural California.(1D Paper)
January 1, 2007... Early Friday evening, February 2, 1885, David Kendall, a city councilman, was caught in the cross fire as two Chinese men shot at each other in Eureka, California, a small fishing and lumber town on the foggy north coast. Kendall died...

Return of the "heathen Chinee": stereotypes in Chinese American archaeology.(2C Paper)
January 1, 2007... The following paper is an excerpt from my University of California, Berkeley, Anthropology senior honors thesis on Chinese American historical archaeology and stereotype, that is, pervasive, preconceived, and usually racialized notions...

Activating legal protections for archaeological remains of historic Chinatown sites: lessons learned from Oakland, California.(2C Paper)
January 1, 2007... (Original title: Rediscovering Oakland's San Pablo Avenue Chinatown) While state law protects archaeological resources, a major redevelopment project planned for the site one of Oakland's earliest Chinatowns showed community members they...

Finding home again: the story of the Chinese Historical and Cultural Project (CHCP) and its efforts to reclaim the forgotten historic Chinatowns of San Jose, California.(4D Paper)
January 1, 2007... (Original Title: the Chinese Historical and Cultural Project) San Jose, California, had a key role in the anti-Chinese movement of the 1880s as the Chinese fought valiantly to remain in a valley that repeatedly tried to oust them--by arson,...

Forming a Chinese identity when everyone else is either black or white.(5J Paper)
January 1, 2007... Ethnic identity (1) involves the cultural aspect of an individual's sense of self. These beliefs attitudes, and values are acquired to a large extent from experiences of interacting with others from one's own ethnic background, especially...

A snapshot of the Asian community in 1930s San Diego.(6C Paper)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... "In 1930 the Asian community remained in eight blocks of the downtown area of San Diego. While some of the Chinese (240) and Japanese (119) in the district were raising families, Filipinos (10), who were the most recent arrivals, were all...

The development of Chinese ethnic communities in greater Boston.(9E Paper Summary)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... (Original Title: Change and Continuity: Boston's Chinese American Community at the Turn of the 21st Century) Since the 1870s, Chinatown has been the center of the Chinese community in Greater Boston and the only neighborhood with a...

The history of two Taoist temples: the Baiyunguan in Shanghai, China, and the Bok Kai in Marysville, California.(7E Paper)
January 1, 2007... (Original Title: Two Daoist Temples: The Baiyunguan (White Cloud Temple) in Shanghai and the Bok Kai Temple in Marysville, 1880s until Present) There is an old Chinese proverb, loosely quoted, that says: "Seeing for oneself is better than...

What is Chinese American art?(6E Panel Summary)(Discussion)
January 1, 2007... IRENE POON ANDERSEN, MODERATOR Our current exhibition "Remembering C. C. Wang" sparked the question for the panel--"What Is Chinese American Art?" Is C. C. Wang, who was a naturalized U.S. citizen living and working in New York for many...

The visual dialectics of golf, leisure, and beauty in Eva Fong Chan's paintings.(6J Paper)(Biography)
January 1, 2007... (Original Title: Racialized Images in 1920s and 1930s San Francisco: The Paintings of Eva Fong Chan) Eva Fong Chan (1897-1991), a Chinese-American artist who actively painted and exhibited her work between 1925 and 1940, painted Bo Kay...

Mirrors and windows: Chinese American filmmakers.(7D Panel Summary)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... VALERIE SOE, MODERATOR The filmmakers in this roundtable discussed the ways in which their work reflects and interprets the concerns of the changing Chinese American community, including constantly shifting definitions of culture and...

More to the Chinese side: the ruminations of a fifth-generation Chinese American filmmaker.(8D Paper)(Personal account)
January 1, 2007... My Chinese American experience is probably different from yours. We, fourth- and fifth-generation Chinese Americans, represent only about 10 percent of the entire Chinese American population. Many of us, like myself, don't look typically...

The 1905 anti-American boycott as a transnational Chinese movement.(1D Paper)
January 1, 2007... That Chinese living overseas have had a crucial impact on China's political development is only slowly being acknowledged by scholars. More than a decade ago, Harvard historian Tu Wei-ming's provocatively termed "transformative potential of the...

Branching out: Chinese American literary studies in Taiwan.(1H Paper)
January 1, 2007... Some of the writings are also, or rather, especially, autobiographical or autocritical, in the sense that I speak of my own identity not as a theorist but as a practicing writer. As a general rule, I do not like to confuse the two roles, but...

Motherland and Chinese diaspora.(1H Paper)
January 1, 2007... In 1975, Chiang Yee took a trip to China from April 15 to June 15. It had been forty-two years since he left China in 1933. Upon his return to New York, Chiang gave public speeches, showed slides at gatherings, and discussed the unprecedented...

Chinese crossing borders: a roundtable comparing Chinese in Canada and the United States.(3H Panel Summary)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Henry Yu, PhD, Moderator The panel on Chinese Canadian history focused on differences between Chinese Canadian and Chinese American history. Edgar Wickberg explained the goals of the new (2004) Chinese Canadian Historical Society of...

The new Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia.(3H Paper)(Regional, state, or local organization overview)
January 1, 2007... (Original Title: Founding a Chinese Historical Society in Canada: Challenges and Lessons from the United States) In May 2004, a dozen of us formally established the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of British Columbia. We began accepting...

The Canadian Chinese Exclusion Act and the veterans who overcame it.(3H Paper)
January 1, 2007... (Original title: Comparing Chinese exclusion and the veterans who overcame it) The 1923 Immigration Act, often referred to as the Chinese Exclusion Act, was an accumulation of the Canadian government's attempt to frustrate the migration of...

Homeland origins and political identities among Chinese Americans.(4C Paper)
January 1, 2007... The Chinese population in the United States consists of persons with multiple origins and diverse histories. In what ways do Chinese Americans of various ancestral homeland origins identify themselves politically in the United States? How does...

Adaptation and organization: the history and heritage of the Chinese in the Riverina and western New South Wales, Australia.(5A Paper)
January 1, 2007... (Original Title: Adaptation and Organization: The History and Heritage of the Chinese in Western New South Wales, Australia) The most significant study of the rural Chinese in Australia is Cathie May's Topsawyers: The Chinese in Cairns,...

Exile between two continents: Ettie Chin's war experience in China (1937-1944).(8H Paper)(Biography)
January 1, 2007... Those who study Chinese American experiences in the early twentieth century often face the challenge of the paucity of written materials produced by ordinary Chinese Americans themselves. Ettie Len-Toy Chin [Hong] (1913-2005) is such a case in...

Youth empowerment: employing opportunities.(2D Panel)(Chinatown Youth Center's Mayor's Youth Employment and Education Program)
January 1, 2007... MICHELLE C WU, MODERATOR INTRODUCTION CYC (formerly Chinatown Youth Center): MYEEP (Mayor's Youth Employment and Education Program) presented a panel of Youth Peer Leaders for "Branching Out the Banyan Tree," the 2005 Chinese American...

Youth empowerment: language, barriers, and opportunities.(2J Paper)
January 1, 2007... (Original Title: Asian Pacific Islander Youth Leadership Development Program) HUBERT V. YEE, MODERATOR On October 7, 2005, at the Seventh Chinese American Studies conference in San Francisco, CYC (formerly known as Chinatown Youth...

Mainstreaming and professionalizing Chinese-language education: a new mission for a new century.(7C Paper)
January 1, 2007... Since 1990, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese) has satisfied the California foreign-language requirement and has been a part of the curriculum of many public schools and universities throughout the-state of California. Many students from Chinese...

More than ninety years of bay area history: group homes for Chinese children.(9H Panel Summary)
January 1, 2007... (Original title: China America, a radiant light: a combined 93-year history of orphanages for Chinese children in the bay area) LYNETTE CHOY UYEDA GIN, MODERATOR Lifelong friendships and a few marriages resulted from connections made...

Conference sessions.(conference sessions, supporters, and participants)(Calendar)
January 1, 2007... 1A FRIDAY, 8:30-9:45 GARDEN A "Changing Education and Community Outreach in San Francisco's Sunset District" --Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center panel The Sunset Neighborhood Beacon Center is an example of an organization located...

Special events and highlights.(CONFERENCE SESSIONS, SUPPORTERS, AND PARTICIPANTS)(Calendar)
January 1, 2007... KICK-OFF/PRE-REGISTRATION RECEPTION OCTOBER 6 (Thursday), 5:00-7:00 P.M. CHSA Museum and Learning Center and the Manilatown Heritage Center (corner of Kearny and Jackson Streets) Co-hosted by CHSA and San Francisco State University's...

Community panels.(CONFERENCE SESSIONS, SUPPORTERS, AND PARTICIPANTS)
January 1, 2007... Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation (6A) [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] CYC (formerly Chinatown Youth Center, now Community Youth Center) (2D, 2J) [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] Chinese American International School (5D)...

High school program.(CONFERENCE SESSIONS, SUPPORTERS, AND PARTICIPANTS)
January 1, 2007... October 7, 2005 (Friday) Sponsored by San Francisco State University, President's Office, Dr. Robert A. Corrigan Session 1F 8:30-9:45 A.M. Imperial A High School Conference Orientation Greetings: CHSA and SFSU (Asian...

Chinese language track [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII].(CONFERENCE SESSIONS, SUPPORTERS, AND PARTICIPANTS)
January 1, 2007... [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] The following panels were sponsored by the Lawrence Choy Lowe Memorial Fund and the Poon Foundation. They were open to the public. OCTOBER 7 (Friday), 1:45-3:00 P.M. (3C) CHINESE LANGUAGE PANEL [TEXT...

Americans First: Chinese American and the Second World War.(NEW BOOK TALKS)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Americans First: Chinese American and the Second World War by K. Scott Wong Harvard University Press, 2005 Moderator: Gregory Mark Session 6B Saturday, 10:15-11:45 Garden B SYNOPSIS: This book examines the identity formation of the...

Becoming Chinese American: A History of Communities and Institutions.(NEW BOOK TALKS)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Becoming Chinese American: A History of Communities and Institutions by Him Mark Lai AltaMira Press, 2004 Moderator: Eric Mar A special combined session with Evan Leong's documentary entitled Him Mark Lai: The People's Historian Session 6I...

The China Mystique: Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong and the Transformation of American Orientalism.(NEW BOOK TALKS)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... The China Mystique: Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong and the Transformation of American Orientalism by Karen J. Leong University of California Press, 2005 Moderator: Harvey Dong Session 8A Saturday, 3:30-5:00 Garden A SYNOPSIS:...

Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City.(NEW BOOK TALKS)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City by Mary Ting Yi Lui Princeton University Press, 2005 Moderator: Paul Fong Session 8B Saturday, 3:30-5:00 Garden B SYNOPSIS:...

Faithful Generations: Race & New Asian American Churches.(NEW BOOK TALKS)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Faithful Generations: Race & New Asian American Churches by Russell Jeung Rutgers University Press, 2005 Moderator: Ben Kobashigawa Session 5B Saturday, 8:30-10:00 Garden B SYNOPSIS: Religion-both personal faith and institutional...

Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America.(NEW BOOK TALKS)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America by Mae M. Ngai Princeton University Press, 2004 Moderator: Robert A. Fung Session 3B Friday, 1:45-3:00 Garden B SYNOPSIS: This book traces the origins of the "illegal...

Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards.(NEW BOOK TALKS)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu University of California Press, 2005 Moderator: Madeline Y. Hsu Session 2B Friday, 10:00-11:15 Garden B SYNOPSIS: Dr. Margaret Chung (1889-1959) was the first-known...

Portraits of Pride.(NEW BOOK TALKS)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Portraits of Pride by Chinese Historical Society of Southern California CHSSC, 2005 Moderator: Eugene Moy Session 5E Saturday, 8:30-10:00 Osaka SYNOPSIS: Portraits of Pride documents the dramatic life stories of 38 Chinese Americans of...

Nameless Builders of the Transcontinental.(NEW BOOK TALKS)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Nameless Builders of the Transcontinental by William F. Chew Trafford Publishing (Victoria, BC), 2004 SYNOPSIS: Nameless Builders of the Transcontinental reveals for the first time the individual names of 1,500 Chinese workers of the...

Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon.(NEW BOOK TALKS)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Sweet Cakes, Long Journey: The Chinatowns of Portland, Oregon by Marie Rose Tong University of Washington Press, 2004 Moderator: Donald Chan Session 1B Friday, 8:30-9:45 Garden B SYNOPSIS: Sweet Cakes, Long Journey chronicles the social and...

Yeee-Hah!: Remembrance and Longing.(New Book Talks)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Yeee-Hah!: Remembrance and Longing by Albert Hoy Yee Bookman Publishing, 2005 Moderator: Yanchun Zhang Session 4B Friday, 3:15-4:30 Garden B SYNOPSIS: Yeee-Hah! analyses definitive issues, such as the Chinese and Jews (two distinct peoples...

Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s-1920s.(New Book Talks)(Brief article)(Book review)
January 1, 2007... Yellowface: Creating the Chinese in American Popular Music and Performance, 1850s-1920s by Krystyn R. Moon Rutgers University Press, 2005 Moderator: Gregory Mark Session 7B Saturday, 1:45-3:15 Garden B SYNOPSIS: Yellowface explores the...

Courage and Contributions: The Chinese in Ventura County.(Documentaries)(sponsored by the Ventura County Chinese American Historical Society )(Brief article)(Video recording review)
January 1, 2007... Courage and Contributions: The Chinese in Ventura County--63 minutes Sponsored by the Ventura County Chinese American Historical Society Introduction: Kenneth Louie Panelists: Linda Bentz, George Sandoval, Angela Soo Hoo, George Yu Session 5G...

Him Mark Lai: The People's Historian.(Documentaries)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
January 1, 2007... Him Mark Lai: The People's Historian--27 minutes Presented by Evan J. Leong Moderator: Eric Mar A special combined session with Him Mark Lai's New Book Talk, Becoming Chinese American: A History of Communities and Institutions Session 6I...

Island Mountain Days: Discovering Nevada's Chinese Miners.(Documentaries)(KLVX-Channel 10-Las Vegas)(Television program review)(Brief article)
January 1, 2007... Island Mountain Days: Discovering Nevada's Chinese Miners--60 minutes Produced by KLVX-Channel 10-Las Vegas Moderator: Sue Fawn Chung Session 2G Friday, 10:00-11:15 Sakura A SYNOPSIS: Against the backdrop of virulent anti-Chinese movements,...

Look Forward and Carry on the Past: Stories from Philadelphia's Chinatown.(Documentaries)(sponsored by National Asian American Telecommunications Association)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
January 1, 2007... Look Forward and Carry on the Past: Stories from Philadelphia's Chinatown--27 minutes Sponsored by NAATA (National Asian American Telecommunications Association) Moderator: Pamela Matsuoka Session 1G Friday, 8:30-9:45 Sakura A SYNOPSIS:...

Sam Fow Stories: Memories from Marysville's Chinatown.(Documentaries)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
January 1, 2007... Sam Fow Stories: Memories from Marysville's Chinatown--75 minutes Sponsored by the Yuba Historical Society Moderator: Daniel Barth Panelists: Bing Ong, Frank Kim, Jack Kim, Doreen Foo Croft Session 6G Saturday, 10:15-11:45 Sakura A ...

What's Wrong with Frank Chin?(Documentaries)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
January 1, 2007... What's Wrong with Frank Chin?--97 minutes Moderator: Jeffery Paul Chan Session 8G Saturday, 3:30-5:00 Sakura A SYNOPSIS: The ayatollah of modern Asian Americanism takes on the meaning of "Chinese," selling out, Christianity, and more in...

American Knees.(Sneak Peeks)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
January 1, 2007... American Knees Presented by Eric Byler Moderator: Wei Ming Dariotis Session 7G Saturday, 1:45-3:15 Sakura A SYNOPSIS: Long after their breakup, Chinese American Raymond Ding (Chris Tashima) and Amerasian Aurora Crane (Allison Sie) struggle...

Chinese Couplet: "El Barrio Chino" and "My Mother's Names".(Sneak Peeks)(Video recording review)
January 1, 2007... Chinese Couplet: "El Barrio Chino" and "My Mother's Names" Presented by Felicia Lowe Moderator: Willard Chin Session 3G Friday, 1:45-3:00 Sakura A SYNOPSIS: El Barrio Chino is a story about the power of truth and reconciliation, and its...

The Chinese in Hollywood Project.(Sneak Peeks)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
January 1, 2007... The Chinese in Hollywood Project (working title) Presented by Arthur Dong Introduction: Robert A. Corrigan Moderator: Jenny Lau Session 4G Friday, 3:15-4:30 Sakura A SYNOPSIS: This latest documentary from the producer of Forbidden City,...

Chinese American historical society, museum, and organization caucus.(8F Caucus Summary)
January 1, 2007... A total of eighteen Chinese American historical societies, museums, and history organizations attended the caucus. Agenda items included issues concerning historical preservation, fundraising, grant writing, and how to make the town and gown...